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Antislavery, Chap. Of: Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook / Mintz, Steven
Part of
Digital History. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research / University of Houston : Department of History, and University of Houston : College of Education
Related Name
Mintz, Steven
Release
Houston, Tex., © 2003
Extent
15 pages (ca. 200 KiB)
Last Visit
Apr 25, 2004.
Language
English
Breaking the Silence. Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project (TST) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet)
Related Names
Beckle, Hilary Macdonald (taskforce member) et al.
Related Inst.
Anti-Slavery International
The British Council
Release
Paris, n. d. [last revised 2004] (UNESCO)
Extent
n/a
Last Visit
Jul 9, 2003.
Technical Notes
The site replaces an older version at http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/asp/tst/index.htm still online and reported by search engines. — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes
In close cooperation with The Slave Route Project of UNESCO's Department of Intercultural Dialogue and Pluralism for a Culture of Peace. – See also the educational resource Breaking the Silence produced by Anti-Slavery International within the framework of the TST project.
Language
English | French (project description)
Includes
Description
Project launched in 1998 to promote the commemoration and teaching of the transatlantic slave trade and to create intercultural networks of schools across the areas which were immediately affected by the trade. Targets secondary school students 14 to 16 years of age. Organizes symposia and workshops, youth encounters. Provides participating schools with educational resources, published brochures, flyers, and annual posters for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (23 August). — Note that an Indian Ocean Slave Trade Education Project is currently under preparation.
Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Slavery in Antebellum Maritime America / Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea
Related Inst.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Release
Mystic Seaport, Conn., © 1997
Extent
n/a
Last Visit
Apr 26, 2004.
Notes
Includes sitemap and local search (also covering full text of primary documents).
Language
English
Includes
Description
The very rich site presents the Amistad court case, the itinerary of the Africans at its center, and the public discussion it generated. The incident is used to examine many of the wider issues relating to slavery in the antebellum United States. – The texts introducing and discussing the case are accompanied by historical illustrations and linked to source material, a wide selection of which is available online from the site's library section. — The Mystic Seaport Museum houses a replica of the Amistad .
History Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic / Larson, Pier M.
Release
Baltimore, Md., n. d. [last update Dec 1998] (Johns Hopkins University)
Extent
92 pages (ca. 220 KiB)
Last Visit
Jan 22, 2008.
Technical Notes
Origianlly at http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~plarson/smuseum/welcome.htm. – Withdrawn. – Record points to list of pages stored by the
  • To Ponder
  • Personal Accounts (Equinao, WPA Narratives, Songs). Use
  • Learning resources
Description
Site aimed above all at primary and secondary students and their teachers. The site does not offer an online exhibit in a conventional sense, but assembles some textual material useful for teaching and studying New World slavery (including several slave songs). — Learning resources provide a collection of links, abstracts of 4 articles on the teaching of slavery, and a list of children's books dealing with slavery.
The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery, Chap. Of: Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook / Mintz, Steven
Part of
Digital History. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research / University of Houston : Department of History, and University of Houston : College of Education
Related Name
Mintz, Steven
Release
Houston, Tex., © 2003
Extent
24 pages (ca. 310 KiB)
Last Visit
Apr 24, 2004.
Language
English
Description
Introduction to the history of the transatlantic slave trade and of slavery in North America also providing some background on the concept of of slavery and the role of the institution in Western history. — See also the related classroom handout [http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us16.cfm] with brief excerpts from primary sources and some statistics on Southern slavery accompanied by study questions.
Slavery in America
Release
[Chatham, N. J.], n. d. [start page stamped Aug 2003]
Extent
ca. 200 pages (ca. 10 MiB) : more than 75 illustr.
Last Visit
Apr 26, 2004.
Language
English
Includes
Description
Site created in the framework of an educational initiative of New York Life Insurance Co., which is also sponsoring a 4-part TV series on the history of American slavery. Provides resources for teaching slavery to middle and high-school students. – No information about the creators and maintainers of the site is available. While the authors of essays and lesson plans are identified by name and in part by institutional affiliation, the criteria for the selection of the material remain unclear. Contributors are paid. – The site includes an Encyclopedia of American Slavery with some 500 brief entries, but the editors, editorial plan and policy, and the contributors are not indicated. – Citations of the sources for some of the primary material are missing. — New York Life is one of several companies that have (thus far unsuccessfully) been sued for compensation by descendants of antebellum slaves. For more information, consult the Slave Era Insurance Registry (California Department of Insurance), the Business & Human Rights Resource Center, and news coverage. The site claims to be endorsed by the National Alliance of Black School Educators.
La traite des noirs / Delpin, Patrice (comp.)
Related Names
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat (Baron de) / Voltaire, François Marie Arouet
Part of
Cliotexte. Catalogue De Textes Utiles À L'enseignement De L'histoire (HYPO: Serveur WEB De L'enseignement Secondaire Postobligatoire) / Geneva : Département de l'instruction publique : Centre pédagogique des technologies de l'information et de la communication (CPTIC)
Release
Geneva, n. d. [start page stamped Jun 2001]
Extent
1 page (ca. 27 KiB)
Last Visit
Sep 24, 2006.
Language
French
Includes
  • La traite des noirs: un problème pas uniquement transatlantique
  • La traite des noirs
  • Justification de l'esclavage [Extract from a memoir, Nantes, mid-18th century]
  • A propos des justifications de l'esclavage des Africains. L'ironie de Montesquieu, adversaire de l'esclavage
  • Contre la traite des noirs [Article from the 'Encyclopédie']
  • Candide à Surinam. Voltaire contre l'esclavage
Description
Excerpts from French primary sources of the 18th century, introduced by 2 brief texts from secondary works.
Was Slavery the Engine of Economic Growth? / Mintz, Steven
Part of
Digital History. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research / University of Houston : Department of History, and University of Houston : College of Education
Related Name
Mintz, Steven
Release
Houston, Tex., © 2003
Extent
1 page (ca. 70 KiB) : 1 illustr.
Last Visit
Apr 25, 2004.
Language
English
Description
Brief essay discussing the thesis advanced by Eric Williams's book Capitalism and Slavery.
What Are the Origins of American Slavery? / Mintz, Steven
Part of
Digital History. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research / University of Houston : Department of History, and University of Houston : College of Education
Related Name
Mintz, Steven
Release
Houston, Tex., © 2003
Extent
1 page (ca. 45 KiB) : 1 illustr.
Last Visit
Apr 25, 2004.
Language
English
Who Owns History? Some Thoughts on the Slave Trade and Related Issues / Austen, Ralph (auth.)
Part of
History Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic / Larson, Pier M.
Release
Baltimore, Md., n. d. [last update Dec 1998] (Johns Hopkins University)
Extent
2 pages (ca. 39 KiB)
Last Visit
Jan 22, 2008.
Technical Notes
Originally at http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~plarson/smuseum/austen.htm. – Removed. – Record points to copies of the two parts of the article stored by the
Description
The author is a professor at the University of Chicago.

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